As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists. – Tim Conway
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes
Its kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases its for the lack of a suitable hero. – Dick Schaap
I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan. – Judd Nelson
People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness. – Ivan Lendl
And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. – Nigella Lawson